The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-19
The Murder Of the Innocents.

1t was reported last week that
some kind Of a fish had been seen
in Richland creek somewhere be-
tween Marshall county and The
mouth and there was great excite
ment for a time. The seiners came
down in plattoons and brigades and
scraped the bottom of the creek
from end to end but they did not
get the fish. It was a canard.
There is not fish left. Our grand
children will wonder what fools
their ancestors were TO permit the
fish species to be swept frcm exis-
tence in one season. The national
government will spend $4,000
stocking a stream with fine fish,
and then the state legislature re-
peals the law protecting them, and
10! horde of men and boys and
niggers will clean them out in one
night! Five years from to-day If
you were to see a fish in Richl2nd
you would run. They will have
them in the museums perhaps.
Let's all bring our fishing tackle to-
gether and build a funeral pile of
it and burn it to the memory of the
wiggling victims of the atrocious
edict Of assassination promulgated
by the late legislature, and let it be
a sacrifice to the God of nature fol-
mercy to the men who have obliter-
ated species of His creation-an
objectionable crime against nature
A hundred seines are dragged
up and down and across the creek
day and night, week in and week
out, and there has been an abso-
lutte wholesale murder of the fnny
tribe-total devastation, wanton an
nihilation, sweeping extinction, IN
merciful immolation, slaugh terino
determination, a savage coup dt
grace, Molecular butchery, a
reign of terror, q murderous indui-
sition, a horrible and heathenish
sirocco of death We have actual
ly wiped the tinny tribe from the
face of the earth in a month like
gluttOnOus, rapacious barbarians
and there shall be no more fishing
in Giles county forever The legis-
lature is not alone responsible.
Many people wanted it done, and
the country belongs to the people
We have rioted in fish for a month
and now we will fast for lifetime
The Mountain Must Go to Mahomet.
If you want to carry the prohibi
ton amendment you must 60 to the
people with argument and persua
sion. The Dyersburg Gazette, in ;
we'll considered article, says tina
too much psalms singing and pray
ing and exhorting will give it til,
character of purely religion!
movement and array the ungodly
against it. The people who oppos,
it as rule are those who do not g
to church and who will never know
the merits of the question unles
the discussion is carried on outsid
of the churches. If you woult
reach these people you must g
out on the stump to do it. If yol
pray and sing and exhort over il
they will consider it none of thei
affair and hands off. You must Q,
to them-meet them in their ele
| ment and discuss it from thei
standpoint. If the discussion is tt
be left wholly to the preachers ant
carried on in the churches, witt
prayers and sanctimonious song
not one in a hundred of the mel
who oppose it will ever hear the ar
gument. We mean no disrespec
to the holy men who are so jealous
ly pushing the discussion in thei
churches. They ought to keep
up, but it ought not to be confined
to them. Neither do we mean t.
be irrlverent. We simply meal
that the means to carry the amend
ment must be adapted to it's OPP
posers. The managers would d
we'll to heed this advice and carr,
the war out in the streets and Oh
the stump and assault the opposi
ton in its strongholds. You have
got to get out among the people
they are not going into the churche
to hear temperance lectures.